Into the Fire
Into the Fire by Ann Brashares, published by Simon and Schuster on September 16, 2025, is the second installment in a middle grade alternate history thriller trilogy. This edition spans 384 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows former best friends Henry, Frances, and Lukas as they navigate a dystopian version of America where Germany emerged victorious in World War II. Despite their previous attempts to restore history, they find themselves trapped in Westfallen, confronting the harsh realities of their altered lives.
Readers will discover the challenges the trio faces as they adapt to their new circumstances. Henry works at the Home for Incurables, while Lukas endures hard labor, and Frances, benefiting from her privileged status, attends school. As they seek ways to communicate with their 1944 counterparts, Frances gathers crucial information, and Henry attempts to elevate Lukas’s status to prevent his deportation to a work camp. The story delves into themes of friendship and resilience against a backdrop of historical fiction and science fiction, exploring the implications of a world shaped by a different outcome of the war.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author Ann Brashares and her brother Ben Brashares comes the second book in the action-packed middle grade alternate history thriller trilogy that asks what present-day America would be like if Germany had won World War II.
Former best friends Henry, Frances, and Lukas thought they’d managed to restore history to its original path after their antics with a time-bending radio went awry. But they’re still trapped in Westfallen, the version of present-day America where the Axis won WWII, living an alternate—and much darker—version of their lives.
Henry has to work at the Home for Incurables, Lukas is on hard labor all day, and only Frances, whose parents are members of the Nazi elite, gets to go to school and move freely. And since they and their friends in 1944 destroyed the radio, they have to find cruder and ever-more-desperate ways to communicate across time. Frances uses her privilege in Westfallen to gather as much information as she can, while Henry tries to turn Lukas into a local baseball hero to save him from being sent away to a work camp.
But the deeper the three friends and their 1944 counterparts dig into how Westfallen came to be, the more they begin to attract unwanted attention from people with a vested interest in making sure this version of history becomes permanent…at any cost.
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